I know it's been a while. I've been crazy busy at work. Only real thing I've got done is making a grommet for the fuel filler. Seems like a silly thing (and it's ugly as all get out), but it's something. The weather is changing and I need to focus on getting the car sealed up.

Boring? Not really look at it from my point of view, I get to look up..... thixotropic.
Was looking at this rear 3rd of a Amazon roof, yesterday by my shed thinking I am overdo for a metal run. Wonder if Adam has an update? And here you are.

Boring? Not really look at it from my point of view, I get to look up..... thixotropic.
Was looking at this rear 3rd of a Amazon roof, yesterday by my shed thinking I am overdo for a metal run. Wonder if Adam has an update? And here you are.

I transferred to the government side of things at work and have been traveling a bunch for work. Just got back from Washington DC. Going to try and get the windows back in soon. Maybe this weekend. I put the two sections of hatch back on with new seals.

Where did you get the threaded sleeves?are there different diameter options ?
Awesome fab skills buddy!!

Those are actually $45 eBay coilover sleeves with QA1 springs. Depending on budget there are a TON of coilover sleeves in different diameters out there (they're mostly centered around 2" I.D.). Coleman Racing, Speedway Motors, JEGS and Summit all have coilover sleeves.

Atom: It was a pleasure to drive up to IPD a few years ago to meet you and your wife and see this wagon in its earlier form. So glad the Headquarters project is seeing movement again!
(Eric from Visalia, CA)

I think car builds are like politics or religion. If you go into a conversation trying to change someone's mind you're going to wind up disappointed. I don't base my builds on whether or not I'm going to make someone eat their words or change their mind. I typically set some criteria in the beginning, have a weighted scale for different priorities and wing it the rest of the way.

I've personally never fallen into the "brand purity" trap. I think, besides a concourse restoration, all builds for all brands wind up swapping non OEM parts. With Volvos there kind of is a lot of that. Different turbos, different suspension, different wheels, T5 trans, LS swap, etc, etc. When do you set the line of demarcation that is "too far"? I've just taken the next step. I will say that I did research all the Volvo chassis' I could get my hands on before I went the route I did, but a few of my criteria were 1)aftermarket support 2)ease of swap (I don't have a garage, driveway work needs to be simple in "Nonis" terms) 3) IRS. There were others, but those all factored into my decision to go E30.

To each their own. We are all in the car game together. We are all spinning on the same planet. It is what it is. I'm looking forward to getting it finished up, enjoying it, using it to strike up conversations and I will let other people drive it so they can get another level of appreciation for it.

To think I've been ignoring this thread because it was about an Amazon.
Holy isht! :D
I love this!

Tell your friends. as much as I hate to say it, when interest on the forums tapers off, so does my drive. Maybe not to get work done, but to post about it. I fall into this "meh, no one is watching, I'll skip posting pics". Then there's also the times where I post everything, then I think I'm oversaturating the thread.

Please continue posting photos/updates. Myself and few friends really like the previous iteration of this wagons and all enjoy following along with the progress you're making lately!! While I almost never post on TB, I do check in on various projects pretty regularly to use as inspiration/motivation for my own projects.

That's a long way of me saying thanks for taking the time to document all the work you've done to this project.

My Dad's garage has an old rotary phone that's been there since the early 80's; the wall around it is covered in decades' worth of customer phone numbers, part numbers, etc. We also make note of the date of garage milestones - When the LS1 went into his V90, first starts, first time my 242 drove up the road..